The bigger difference you didn't bring up is that pool cue shafts are made of hard rock maple it dosent have the porosity and grain that ash snooker shafts do. Maple shafts get dirty and sticky faster so they have to be cleaned and conditioned more often to keep them feeling the the same. Players wear gloves so they can slack off on cleaning and still get a consistent feel. I prefer a regular cleaning and wax to a glove.

@TomFahy

3 жыл бұрын

Spot On - We, in the UK, also generally speaking have never really had a climate where glove wearing was that much of a help to cueing - but by far the biggest reason, as pointed out, is cue care.

I've never bought one because I already look like a div when I play, and I don't need to give the guys at the club something new to laugh at

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

To be truthful that was a big reason for me not wearing one as well

@Crxig3

5 жыл бұрын

I cant help but laugh at the people who wear these. It's not that I think the glove isn't useful. It just looks so ridiculous! I'm a pool player. Not sure if the same goes for snooker players, but I have an incredible sense of pride about my game. I dont want any outside influence. Good or bad. I'm responsible for everything that happens on that table. Even if it's my opponent defeating me. The great pool players of old didnt have a glove and they didnt need it. Neither do I.

@benmorris118

5 жыл бұрын

@@Crxig3 to be honest, I think I'd have benefited from one before I bought my new cue. My old one was good but very sticky. The things I did to avoid a glove were so ridiculous i would have beenwat better off buying ove

@eddieruddy4995

5 жыл бұрын

@@Crxig3 aren't you great

@Crxig3

5 жыл бұрын

@@eddieruddy4995 well id like to think so. Was this supposed to be a dig towards me? All I did was share my opinion

Not about the looped bridge mate. Most pool players with standard bridge also wear gloves. Main reason is larger shaft (more surface friction) and maple instead of ash...

@gregmooney94

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say the pores and grain of ash have much of a difference on a closed bridge versus maple. The main difference would be the conical taper of a snooker cue versus the pro taper of an American pool cue.

a lot of the issues you had gripping things with the glove are really non-issues. for starters, you can easily get a fingerless glove. but also, for someone who is right handed, they'll be using their left hand for bridging, leaving their dominant hand free. a lot of professional pool players also use a chalking technique wherein they hold the cue mid-shaft with their bridge hand, and use their dominant hand to chalk the tip, helping avoid dropping the chalk.

Hi Nikhil from chennai, India. Recently began playing, and I see you have made a video on the dominant eye theory, after watching which my potting really improved and I won my first game. Great feeling. Thank you for doing what you do.

Great vid, but I find the idea of chalking my cue with my left hand (as a right-hander) alien. And it's something I realise I've never taken note of in other players.

Thanks for all your vids these have really helped me and thanks to you I got my first 40 break, btw I'm commenting from Windsor UK come down for some frames!

been watching htese videos for a few weeks. Im from Derby/Nottingham and these have helped me improve a few differnt ways

Tuning in from Italy. Thanks for testing the glove on a snooker table. I think the biggest benefit is when bridging with a looped finger as you pointed out. I often used that method in pool (albeit with my trusty snooker cue), and "stickiness" was always a problem.

Great video. I use a glove on humid days when playing American pool, but the open finger type. I just feel like a tosser when I wear one, so I only put it on when things get really sticky. Dayne in South Africa.

Watching from Chicago, Illinois, i use a glove when i play pool and i use an open bridge style, main reason why is to avoid sweat or sticky cue sticking to my hand.

@wombra8314

4 жыл бұрын

rodrigo delgado shout out chicago ✊️😎

@OreoPubgMobile

2 жыл бұрын

@@wombra8314 to

Loving the videos !! They have helped me improve me all round snooker playing! And hello from porepunkah, VICTORIA, Australia 🇦🇺

Here from Edmonton, Alberta - thanks for the videos! Love the bridging stuff

I've used Predator Second Skin, Kamui and Molinari and they're all very nice to use. Predator Second Skin in particular is very comfortable and smooth. All of them are cut at the finger tips. There is a rougher surface on the bottom side of the glove, either rubber or some other fabric, which might cause more problems with the hand prints you mentioned (never really a huge problem with me from Kamui), but they would help with taking balls out of the pockets for sure. Expensive though!

Another thing to consider when deciding to use a glove is “touchy” shots. I play a lot of pool (8, 9, 10 ball etc.) and with my very first cue a few years back, i made the mistake of rubbing away the protective coating on the shaft and it soon became sticky. My hands do get pretty sweaty too specially considering i live in Houston which is really humid. My main problem became low speed and/or touch shots. The cue would become “stuck” to my skin and as i gave it a bit more of a push to break that stick it broke free and added unnecessary speed to the ball. The glove got rid of that. Now there are different gloves and i have so far gone through 6 of them, and I have not noticed a difference in performance in as to what you were saying about the cue vibrating etc. The materials are all the same, the only difference between a $5 glove and a $25-30 glove, lets say, Predator Second Skin, is the details. The predator has a breathable mesh in the palm as well as a leather patch in the fatter part of the palm that is in constant contact with the table. It also has a strap and nicer looks, but the cue slides the same as in any other.

I love the arrangement of the glove's fingers at the end.

Really enjoyed these videos over the years. Thanks for all the advice. Much appreciated

Great! I've actually got two billiard gloves lying around from when I was playing pool a lot. Will from Monmouth, Wales

Tbh I started using a glove some time ago (mostly because my local club has poor AC and my hands sweat immensely) and I can safely say that they work wonderful, I feel much smoother cue delivery

Well i used the glove before with my old cue, and it was very ok no issues i preferred it than using powder due to the fact it get messy at times. However recently and after getting a new cue i simply keep it clean and i stopped using it nor using powder ,tho i still have it. I used to use the loop bridge in my early days when i was playing the french style billiard i dont know if you know it or not, but there was no pockets on the table your mission is to hit 2 balls to get a point. But when i started playing snooker i shifted my bridge to the regular snooker one. Thanks man for the information and the amazing videos

Great video. Thanks. Have been asking this question for years without a satisfactory answer. Might even subscribe.

I have rubbed cue chalk on my bridge,its worked well for me. Thanks for your great vids.

Hello from Newcastle, Australia! Great video mate.

Watching from Regina,Sk. Canada... nice video... i myself own a glove but only use it if the pool hall is humid. the last tourney i played in i had the issue the next day i bought a glove lol Vapor Cool Edge Pool and Billiard Glove- the glove i bought. i like it cuz it gives good feel of the cue through the glove

im from manchester, and up here it gets wet.. and a glove helps a lot. i wear a glove when i play 9 ball, but with my snooker cue, i don't. i couldn't tell you the reason behind this, i just don't 😂 lovely vid!

I’m 15 and kind of new to snooker I love the vids and find them to help me with all the new things to do, do u recommend and cues for beginners not to expensive. Watching the vids from Preston keep up the work

Awesome videos brother. You've improved my snooker and pool game with all your videos. Watching you from Santa Barbara California. Keep up the great content. Cheers

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting to know you have snooker there

@brianrweda4283

5 жыл бұрын

@@Breakfromlife I'm lucky that there's one table in the town I live.

Watching from a small town in central Bulgaria! Nice vid!

Just found this channel. Loving your videos.

I talked to a guy at my local club and he says he wears his in snooker because he was used to from playing 9ball and like you said higher cue power. Also said if he plays in different tournaments that has different air temperatures he’ll always have the same consistency. Deangelo from Windsor Ontario, Canada

Being right- handed I've always used my right hand to chalk. Just holding the cue in my left hand while chalking felt natural to me. So I never had the chalk dropping on the ground other than the rare occasional slip. The glove was a huge benefit over using talk powder or even putting chalk between my thumb and index finger. At the start it felt different, like less feedback of the cue through the skin, but the cueing was so much smoother and I never regretted switching to the glove.

Thanks for the great vids you are making! Richard in Mauritius.

still watching...keep up the good work!! put on the map pls...im from wiltshire in the uk!!! (the same place stephen lee is from)

The cuesoul gloves are the best ones I ve tried to date it’s strong well made and better quality material much more smoother to play with than the cheaper ones which I ve played with before

Glad you’ve made this video mate. I’ve used a variety of different cues over the years and have always loved playing with my 1pc jp ultimate which is super smooth along the bridge. However for convenience sake I purchased a cheap Chinese 3/4 cue and even though I managed to knock a 53 break in with it, it was like playing with a kids cue covered in sticky sweats residue lol. I kept having to wipe it down. My advice is ditch the glove and ditch the cheap nasty cues and go pay the extra. Think of how many years it takes to become good at the game therefor the price doesn’t matter if you are getting better value from playing well. That being said wear the glove if it helps you for now until you can upgrade to a more suitable cue.

I use one because the Californian heat makes me sweat a bit when playing for hours at a time. The glove just eliminates any annoyance there.

Interesting video. I used to use talcom powder. Thought the table grip would be reduced.

As a regular pool player (9ball & straight; not snooker), I can say that it really depends on the shaft material as well. My ultralight playing cue has a fibreglass shaft, wich for some reason feels like sandpaper after an hour of play, a glove is an absolute must! However my breaking cue has a maple shaft and it plays like crap with the glove, though that might be due to me using cuesilk on it before starting a session wich gets sticky with glove use. On topic: I havent found differences in cheap or expensive gloves, so I just stick to the cheap ones (though they do wear out quicker).

ive got one of those gloves, more for the humid days tho, havent used it in ages. 30p to me in china, yay!

love your videos has helped me lots thanks craig

I'm one of those players who uses a glove, as I switch between a looped and standard bridge, at first it was to try and limit how dirty my sanded 9-ball cue was getting, Barry Stark has a good tip of using a crumpled up sheet of paper to take the worst of it off and smooth it out, but I noticed after a while my hands would get just a little sweaty also why I have a thread wrapped cue butt. Edit: One downside I did find, was bridging from the rail, with the glove covering my finger tips I tended to slip off the edge, but fixed that by snipping the ends off with some scissors leaving the thumb alone, also the glove needs cleaning/replacing regularly.

Ive been playing english pool for about 4 years now, and didnt try a glove until October. Best decision ive made, i suffer from slightly clammy hands so the cue tends to grip my bridge a bit. Having it feels so smooth with cue delivery

Hi bro, I'm watching you from Centallo a northern city of Italy I love the video, so interesting

Subscribed from Portsmouth, Ohio in the US!! Great videos!

as American pool balls are so much heavier a closed loop bridge is needed to get more cue power for draw/follow shots so the gloves help with cueing accuracy and draw accuracy. I shoot open bridge on my snooker table at home. south west Michigan usa here

You have a new subscriber... really good content :)

@01:55 BfL: You also have to consider the fact that the taper on the cue is more conical for a snooker than for a pool cue. For this fact, snooker player use the open bridge and not a closed one. Because of the conical taper, the cue slightly elevates when cueing aka cue-ing and needs some friction to stay on the open bridge. With the chin on the cue, and the cue to the check with the friction on the open bridge all stabilizes the cue when driven through the stroke.

For me the main reason is consistency of delivery, as with all things snooker. Your skin is not the slick tar sealed road you think it is to slide something like a cue over. And conditions, especially when heating is excessive and nerves are poor etc can bring an amount of sweat. The glove material allows it to glide more smoothly which will explain your 4% difference- a slick tar sealed road provides greater efficiency than an unsealed one for the same drive. Reason it’s easier to cue over the ball is for the same reason. A scrunch raised hand means the cue gets a slightly bumpier road and it’s more important then to cue through smoothly. If anything I’d say the main reason players don’t use them is because most these days grew up without them and lose that feel of cue on hand with all its heightened sensitivity of feeling the connect with the cue. Sometimes it so smooth you can’t even feel it. So for that reason I see competitive advantage coming in in youngers players who will grow up with them.

I play with gloves it makes cue glide with ease and stopping friction however the only trouble with it can cause u to lose control more by over cueing as it is so smooth and it makes it really slick and smooth for cueing as long as u can control the cue well whilst wearing gloves it does help when playing but in other ways it can be a bad thing when cones to control as it’s harder to control by then again it’s hard to control a cue in a sticky situation and like rubbing the bridge hand with a piece of rubber there’s pros and cons to consider either way

Noticed there were some players in the World Championship qualifiers playing with a glove, Luo Honghao even made it to the Crucible

Just subscribed from Budapest, Hungary! ;) nice video!

I've just taken up snooker again after many years away from the game and the club i go to is quite warm; I regularly wipe down my cue and dry my hands with a towel however after a few hours of practice the other day, the skin on my thumb split and it was painful to cue; it's the first time it's ever happened and although I don't like the thought of wearing one, i'm considering a glove. Having said that, maybe it's just a case of the more I play the tougher my skin will get.

Just discovered this channel and i like it thanks

Hi, I am watching from country Georgia, Tbilisi. You make great videos.

My hands sweat like you would not believe. I haven't tried a glove yet, though I should, but I do use a lot of talcom powder.

I use Pledge furniture polish on the shaft on humid days...works like a dream.

@jacksmith4460

5 жыл бұрын

trouble with that is, if you ever wanted to get your cue worked on, maybe refinished, after time...it will be almost impossible to do a good finish job on. I used to be a wood finisher, and the silicone in furniture polish seeps through lacquers and embeds in the wood and is almost impossible to neutralise, which is a problem because it reacts with most types of finishes, so if its an expensive cue you intend to keep for life, its a really bad idea

In the US, gloves are very common. It has nothing to do with the bridge you use, but the climate you are in. If you are in a humid area and/or you have sweaty hands, a glove simply makes playing easier. There is nothing more annoying than a sticky cue. I keep a glove in my case and use it when necessary. As for the issues you were having... I have never seen anyone else have them. I can easily pick up 3 balls in a gloved hand. I have never seen a glove leave a mark on a table. And I have never seen anyone drop chalk in a gloved hand. Granted, you said your chalk was no longer cubed, so that might be the issue. They do make gloves without fingertips, but I never saw the point in them... but that might help you and your round chalk. In all reality, gloves do help. You dont have to constantly wipe down your cue to get rid of the sweat and grime, not do you need messy talcum powder.

Hey oh! Thanks for great videos and I am watching from Prague, Czech Republic :-) Pretty good Snooker community here :-)

@corallaroc2946

5 жыл бұрын

Where is the best place to play snooker in Prague for somebody visiting the city? Thanks!

@LukasJanMarekThe

5 жыл бұрын

Hey. Either Řipská Billiard club (one nice snooker table) or Kolbenova Billiard club (more snooker tables but worse quality than Řipská)

@corallaroc2946

5 жыл бұрын

@@LukasJanMarekThe Cool, thank you! :-)

The first thing I had to do when I started playing is getting a billiards glove. Right away for my first time playing I noticed that after just 15 minutes my hands started to get sweaty which made the cue litteraly stick to my fingers. It not just decreased my accuracy and cue power, but it started rubbing off my skin, so it was painful after a while as well. By the time I didn't think about using a powder, so I chose the most rational solution, I bought a glove. It made my whole game a lot more comfortable and honestly, wearing glove made me being able to concentrate more on executing the shot rather than the feeling of the cue rubbing against my fingers.

Look for the Poison or Predator gloves. They have a rubber coating on the table side of the palm that will help grip on the cloth. I have a feeling you're seeing more hand marks because the material of the glove wants to grab the nap of the snooker felt. Oh, and for the pinboard map, Reno, Nevada USA. Love your videos. I haven't played pool in almost two years due to the pandemic and getting hurt working, but I can't wait to take some of what I learned from your videos to the table :)

Recently transistioned to snooker after playing pool in my youth. My first purchase included cue, case, chalk and a GLOVE! My hands get sticky often and a glove was essential when I played pool. I personally could not fathom playing a cue sport without a glove at least on stand by.

At 8:08, why the cue-ing is easier in the spider position is that the glove covers most of the loose skin at the thumb, hence removing much friction.

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if it had anything to do with the fiction or lack of though

I use a predator glove in pool because my hands get sweaty in the summer or under pressure like watching Alex Honnold doing his thing. I used to practice some snooker too but gave it up partly due to the friction issues. I played snooker without a glove since I didn't feel so comfortable with the open bridge draw, smaller cue ball and lighter cue together with the glove.

@Draugo

5 жыл бұрын

Why are you playing pool while watching Alex Honnold? Or is it a form of pressure training :D

@nakke3

5 жыл бұрын

@@Draugo You bet 😄 You know that 9 ball on the spot shooting from the rail. Do or die shots. So easy with the relaxed state of mind.

new(ish) subscriber, enjoy your videos, very imformative, think i will buy a bridge glove and give it a try. cheers

Nobody is watching your videos from Spain and it looks very emty on your map. I'm watching you from Malaga, Spain. Love ur videos

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

Had a lot of comments from Spain but only in the last few days. KZread must be showing my videos there all of a sudden

@adriangal93

5 жыл бұрын

​@@Breakfromlife I'm following u about one month and a half

Seems silly you dont have nyc on that board of yours! Love your vids! huge improvement across the table!

I like at lahore, Pakistan which gets humid sometimes. I have played snooker without glove for 22 years but since I shifted on using a glove, it has made things better for the game plus comfort level has improved. We have two basic quality gloves available One for 0.5$ and other for 2.5$ ( after conversion) The later one is made of a material which is less slippery and makes you even forget that you are wearing one

There used to be two lower-ranked snooker professionals - Ian Graham and Nigel Gilbert - who both usually played in gloves.

1:26 I seem to remember that occasionally Alex Higgins would use the loop bridge as opposed to the standard one

I cut the fingertips off my gloves, it helps with the chalk issue. Pretty sure you can buy them without tips also. The glove helps here in the Texas heat/humidity.

@wombra8314

4 жыл бұрын

Ann Malone Sulsar same lol

I would imagine the cue would suffer from minor lateral movements while cueing with a glove (the friction of my skin helps me cue straight), just a guess never used one (watching from Bristol UK)

After watching this I improved much ....love from shah jee

Greetings from Turkey, Love your channel...

I use one for pocket-billiards, but I've never tried it with snooker, because the nearest snooker table to me in Central Maryland is over an hour's drive away. I'd really like to play snooker someday though. I like the mechanics of the game much more than any other game except for straight-pool.

Hi from Vancouver Canada, huge Chinese population here and I’ve seen a lot playing snooker with a glove.

I play a fair bit of snooker and never had the need for a glove. I regularly clean my cue shaft with a hot (hot as you can stand it) wet cloth rung out so it’s just damp and giving the shaft a real good rub down - you’ll see all the grime on the cloth once you’ve finished. The fact the cloth is hot means that the moisture you put on to the cue will mostly evaporate off and be nice and smooth. From there you can put some cue slick on which makes it feel brand new. I always make sure I wash my hand and dry them properly before I play as well.

Played a lot of 9 ball and used a Molinari glove after much trial and error with different gloves. It’s much pricier but finger tips cut out so you got your finger tips instead of glove for grip. It lasted me a year or more where as cheap ones just wouldn’t. Molinari gloves are just the best in my opinion. After years, it’s weird for me not to wear a glove.

Jestel overloop from belguim keep up the nice video's

Tks much. A lot more fun / improving my snooker game.

@peterwwm1626

5 жыл бұрын

Noted: 20-23 June: BKK/TH to Host World Women's Snooker Championship 2019. At Hi-End Snooker Club

Watching from Lakeland, Florida! I didn’t see any pins there :)

Watching from Malaysia 🤔 Nice video, i hope i can do it on my old carpet 😂

Your one hell of a great snooker player 👍

Also ash isn’t as sticky as maple shafts is another reason.

Sultan Glove by Longoni Semih Sayginer Recommend Professional Billiards Accessories for Carom Pool Left / Right Handed Players Size (from Amazon)

Hey, just subscribed from Brasília, Brazil

I use a glove to play snooker. I always get clammy hands and I used to use talc but I was literally applying it every 5 minutes. The thing is, for modern players in America, it's just the norm to wear gloves, whereas in England it's not. Therefore some people are embarrassed to wear one in case people take the piss - fine example, might have been Ross Muir or another player but one was wearing one in the snooker shoot-out the other month, and the same audience member kept making Michael Jackson noises thinking he was funny (nobody laughed). re: the chalking thing, I'd hazard a guess that most players chalk with their dominant i.e. non-gloved hand anyway. Some don't, but most I see do.

@johnhoush4366

5 жыл бұрын

I make it a point to chalk with the non-bridge hand. The main reason is so that chalk doesn't get on my bridge hand. I didn't originally do it that way, but common sense made me realize that chalk residue falling from the chalk into my hand could cause friction.

@ourniche

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnhoush4366 so then don't you mean you chalk with your bridge hand? If - as you suggest, which makes sense, residue falls onto the hand you are holding the cue with then you would not want that to be your bridge hand.

2 recommendations for you real quick. The best gloves to use for feel are Molinari, Predator and Kamui (they all have the finger tips and thumb tip cut off) and maybe use master chalk as well, your chalk wont roll away from you when you drop it yeah?

My experience: I mainly play pool and a long time I couldn't imagine to use a glove because I was frightened to loose control of feeling. One year ago I gave it a try because someone on my club gave me a cheap glove. It was no big difference, it felt nearly the same like without a glove. Very natural and I didn't loose control. The benifit: no matter how munch my cue was dirty or how munch I sweated (in the summer my hands sweat a lot, always had to wash them or clean the cue a lot), the feeling on the stroke was always the same! The sliding is perfectly consisting no matter if you play in summer and sweat or forgot to clean your cue! It is always the same sliding. Still using the cheap gloves,, even if I go to the snoooker table. Consistancy is what we are all looking for I think. It helped me a lot and I would recommend every snooker player to try it!!!! Some of our pool players are more comfortable with gloves without finger tipps to "feel" the cloth. If you need to feel it, buy gloves without fingertipps. @breakfromlife watching you from Schwerin, Germany, thumbs up

Hi, enjoy your videos, I have a question similar to this.. Why do top level pool players seem to have very poor stance and cue action compared to snooker players?

Though this vid was made 4yrs ago, I'm just going thru some vids I didn't watch coz it was not related at that time. But recently bought a snooker glove to help with my cueing mainly due to the place being humid making my cue sticky. I use to clean it with snooker oil, but if the weather in the club is not cool enough, the cue gets sticky often. This is what I feel. Snooker glove is a go for me. And yeah, don't really care if other guys laugh if I wear the glove! 😂

I switched to a predator second skin glove and I have never looked back. I live in a dry climate and I don’t really have sweaty hands, overall it’s just more constant feel.

Give your experiment another try with closed bridge! That’s why many caroom played with closed bridge for more power and control.

Hi Shane from Cambridge United kingdom here I just use talc it's just as good especially in the summer

Were the marks on the cloth from dye rubbing off the glove, or was it just that the love material raised the nap on the cloth?

When I read reviews for some of these gloves (Kamui) I see that the "seam" along the index finger is right where the cue travels so I think this would be a major issue (but not a problem for pool players that cue with the keyhole method). So wondering if snooker players have experienced this issue?

A lot of it comes down to the difference in tapers of pool cues vs snooker cues. Snooker cues have always traditionally been conical in taper, so a closed loop bridge provides little benefit since a conical tapered cue tends to push your fingers further apart as you stroke through the shot and can cause inconsistent and inaccurate shots. Pool cues are often, though not always, made with "pro" tapers in which the diameter of the shaft changes very little between the tip of the shaft up to a few inches away from the joint of the cue. This kind of taper lends itself to the closed loop bridge where you don't have to worry about a changing diameter of the shaft pushing your fingers apart, whereas a conical taper does not.

You should try the kamui gloves they are about 25£ but they the best

I'm Kevin from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On the subject of gloves, snooker clubs here are very prone to humidity problems due to tropical weather. My theory is that most pool players wear gloves because pool cues are generally made from maple wood, whereas majority snooker players use ash wood cues. I've been playing snooker for nearly 20 years and I have been using a maple shaft cue for 4 years before switching back to an ash shaft cue 2 years ago. Speaking from experience, the maple shaft tends to get much stickier due to humidity as compared to an ash shaft cue. Maple wood is much more sensitive to humidity than ash wood.

@Breakfromlife

5 жыл бұрын

A few players with maple cues have told me before how much they struggled with damp conditions

Alex Higgins used the looped bridge for some screw shots. Joe Davis claimed to have done the same in his book

I play English pool where the cues are actually thinner at the tip end normally between 7.8 and 9mm I use more of a snooker cue at 9.6mm I use a glove and an open bridge the reason I use it is because of the consistency of shot feel ie no matter how sweaty your hands get cueing the cue ball feels the same every time which to me is a positive